... acceptance of alternative, even enchanted realities; like certain strains of modern analytic philosophy and science fiction, it posits possible worlds and builds them out from within by acts of intellection, extended metaphorical conceits, and provisional bids for our faith. More than the result of a loose...

...Phillip E. Wegner This essay takes up the challenge, issued by Fredric Jameson in a 1976 minnesota review essay, to become attentive to the “presence of some Utopian content even within the most degraded and degrading type of commercial product.” It does so through a reading of the Adam Sandler and...

... , psychoanalysis proved useful in her analysis of the Muslim head-scarf controversies in French schools, and it plays an even more prominent role in her forthcoming book, The Fantasy of Feminist History . She recently led a seminar on secularism at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she is on the...

... a religion of the state. But did Christian communism actually exist in earliest, first-, or even second-century Christianity? The evidence is exceedingly slender if not nonexistent. And so I take a dialectical line, arguing that the probable nonexistence of early Christian communism is precisely the...

.... Arguably, it is only with the onset of modern politics in the West, from the French Revolution onward, that this conceit has been partially undermined and that violence and terror have become central to theoretical discussions. But even in these discussions, violence is presented as accidental or...

...Rita Raley This essay first considers global English in relation to the contemporary sociotechnological milieu. It examines machine translation applications, particularly Google Translate, and suggests that they globalize English in their de facto articulation of it as a normative default. Even, or...

... transformational forms of discourse. Understanding literature as transformational requires us to consider, however, the fundamental question of whether “criticism” itself is even compatible with the kinds of surface, pious, generous, intensive, mutual reading imagined as alternatives. The essay explores several...

... even more troubling that anthologies of world literature, which include many works in translation, tend to exclude or marginalize Arab writing. Drawing from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's statement that “such slips become the rule rather than the exception in less careful hands” (1989, 272) and from the...

...-Willett
18
19
The city evening is already throwing
its awe on your shoulders and so
I am loyal to your image
here and for years —​
even as your face ceases
to have a face, even as your body
is published against the sodium lights above. ...

..., up spiral stairs
Tony Curtis unfurled his green flesh like a flag.
It was surprisingly dry. Even the red spine
Quivering beneath the lips of Harajuku girls
In sailor skirts, those pouty lips the shade of iodine-
131, even the tips, even the swollen frills
Were dry. He only seemed to be...

...
hold you before you trestle and spool
into the day’s tender appointment?
The city morning is already punishing
your shoulders and so I keep your image
here and for miles, even as your face ceases
to have a face, even as your body
erases into the terrible light above...

...,
my mother said. It was barely dark,
even for November. Let me see that rifle,
my father said. He didn’t hunt and kept no guns.
I heard him click the safety on. Later,
my parents fought. He drinks too much.
She could have died. My father answered,
It’s over...